How to Make Perfect Corners

Scrap wood makes for a great guide

Hockessin Community News

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Posted Feb. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Feb 19, 2013 at 7:23 PM

Posted Feb. 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Feb 19, 2013 at 7:23 PM

Getting a uniform jamb reveal when installing door and window casing is easy if you make a scribing jig like Tom Bernardís. This McMinnville, Oregon, Club member cuts a 1/4-in. rabbet in two edges of a piece of scrap lumber and trims the stock to 4 in. square. Then he sets the rabbeted edges into each of the four corners of the jamb and traces along the two edges to mark where the inside of the casing will land.